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June 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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We're going to need to keep taking to the streets. We're going to need a General Strike and maybe many. We need to treat this like the red alarm moment in our history that it is.
June 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Right now, Congress is considering a bill that would funnel billions of our taxpayer dollars to help President Trump deport our immigrant neighbors and loved ones.

We can't let that happen. Tell Congress: No more money for ICE.
STOP THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: NO MASS DEPORTATIONS
Congress is poised to give over $170 billion more to immigration enforcement and detention, supercharging President Trump's mass deportation machine. Ask Congress to refuse more funding for ICE and pr...
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/stop-mass-deportations?initms_aff=nat&initms_ch[…]l-nat-petition-immigration-stop_mass_deportations-immigration
June 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”

In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.
June 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Police shot stun grenades and rubber bullets, then turned to tear gas, in Los Angeles on Saturday. The gathering there was separate from the local “No Kings” event.
Police deploy stun grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas on L.A. protesters
The demonstration outside the downtown Federal Building was separate from the local “No Kings” event held earlier as part of nationwide rallies.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.

“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed
The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.
www.politico.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"Why do faceless politicians have the power to strip human beings of their divine moments?”

Mahmoud Khalil shares a public letter to his 3 week old son, who he hasn't been allowed to meet because ICE is keeping him detained for his speech in support of Palestinian rights.
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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“The notion that I or any of my colleagues ‘body slammed’ armed federal officers is absurd. DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
May 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Big story of the week?
--WH wanting to suspend habeas corpus
--Illegal gestapo like round-ups nationwide
--Arresting and intimidating public officials
--Economic chaos, lies and weakening economy
--Turning the corruption up to 11
--Destroying US healthcare protections
--Gutting American science
May 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Yup! ⬇️
May 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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May 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..
May 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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This weekend we're celebrating all of the moms who support their children without condition, exactly as they are.
May 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.'

The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN Politics
The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat...
www.cnn.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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May 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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What do New York Republicans need to do to fully repeal the SALT cap?

Nothing.

It's already set to expire in January 2026, saving New York families billions in taxes.

Remember, if the cap remains in any form, it's only because New York Republicans will have voted to keep it.
The SALT Republicans have more leverage than you think
It’s time to talk about SALT and why we think that New York, New Jersey and California Republicans have more leverage than others think.
punchbowl.news
May 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The Crisis of Masculinity & Trump’s Exploitation of the Manosphere

American men are dying younger due to loneliness, suicide, & an inability to achieve a successful future. MAGA has filled the vacuum with a destructive "manosphere." There's a better way forward.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
May 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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BREAKING: Donald Trump has begun to cave on China tariffs, Pope Leo XIV sees the United States “heading in the wrong direction in terms of immigration," and Trump fires the nation's librarian.

All the news you missed: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: Donald Trump Begins to Cave on China Tariffs
Donald Trump has begun to cave on China tariffs, Pope Leo XIV sees the United States “heading in the wrong direction in terms of immigration," and Trump fires the nation's librarian
open.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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“One attendee, arrived straight from a protest.

‘And it was no accident,’ he said.

‘These two events are connected. I can protest because of the sacrifices and the vision people like John Brown had all the way at our country’s beginning’...”

www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central...
How a Pittsfield tavern contributed to America’s first offensive victory in the Revolutionary War — and why it still matters 250 years later
Two and a half centuries ago, in a Pittsfield tavern, three men discussed plans for a secret raid that would become America’s first offensive victory in the Revolutionary War. On
www.berkshireeagle.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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May 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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My 7th Tesla takedown and fun as always. Don’t ever change Seattle!
#teslatakedown #defundmusk #seattle #seattleprotests
May 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM